the cassamplerette

A big welcome from both of us at Rattly And Raw to the unusual world of the Cassamplerette!Please check out the video below demonstrating this wonderful instrument(all music in the presentation is from the Cassamplerette)*disclaimer - some of the content on this page might be quite tongue in cheek....

'Whilst racking our brains for new and exciting instruments to create sample instruments from, we started playing around with an old cassette machine we had in the workshop. Alan had the great idea of making a cassette-based sampler instrument triggered from a single key mechanism we had lying around. Unlike the classic mellotron, this crackpot contraption used a cassette mechanism, a single key and whatever cassette tapes we had lying around. The results were definitely exciting and definitely Rattly And Raw!'

And now...

Being the proud new owners of the Cassamplerette we decided to make the most of it!We found 49 appropriate instruments and also a huge amount of drums and percussion and recorded them painfully and slowly to the Cassamplerette at as many pitches as we could get per instrument! We then transferred and edited all these recordings to Kontakt through a killer signal path (vintage neve pres and prism conversion) and created a digital version of the Cassamplerette but with all the convenience that Kontakt offers!

FEATURES:• ONLY £30• 50 real instruments lovingly recorded note by note from Cassamplerette tapes and made into fully controllable Kontakt instruments! Please check the manual (below) for a full list of instruments!

• An additional 150 preset instruments, These often have additional FX, layers and functionality making them like extra instruments!

• A comprehensive GUI giving control of, FX, distortion and other parameters